Yes: Look at the settings, notice that caching is disabled by default in Windows and has been since Windows XP was released, and yank away as soon as any file operations are done in explorer or whatever program you just used to save.
I'm on Linux Mint
Yes Linux has a bit more trust in the quality of hardware. The most common OSes in the world on the other hand do not cache on removable drives and better still if you do get corruption you will get a big warning message for whatever program was currently writing.
My recollection is also that somewhere along the line Microsoft changed the default in Windows.
Yes, almost 17 years ago they changed that default. Windows hasn't enabled caching and the likes on removable drives since the release of Windows XP.
The only benefit you get of the safely remove feature is that windows won't let you remove the drive if it is actively being written to. But either way you will know instantly if you end up with a corrupted file if you don't safely remove as you'll get an error message for whatever program was writing.
Mr Gruber's scenario of hidden corruption just isn't a thing.
No he wasn't. He was actively using and publishing openly footage of his passengers for his own financial gain. Not the same thing, not theoretically, not practically and sure as fuck not legally.
No need to be sorry. You completely agreed with me and provided a nice citation that helps bolster my case too. Thankyou. Every single one of the issues raised in that video is related to reasons of technical capability and the state of the technology as to why electronic voting doesn't work.
Not a single case was made for why technology shouldn't be pursued to improve the system of voting. Quite the opposite actually, he provided plenty of arguments of why it actually should be pursued, e.g. the pencil argument against disappearing ink.
It's not because technology allows it that it must be the preferred option (electronic voting is a poster child of the idea).
You have this idea precisely backwards. Electronic voting is a poster child for improving a complex system involving many days of manual effort with many 10s of thousands of man hours just to answer a simple but widely asked question. It's a perfect example of where technology would be best applied, except that the application is completely let down by the state of the technology itself NOT allowing it (security in particular comes to mind).
Oh don't be daft. Conflating privacy invasion by corporations for the own personal gain with having private video and audio of you published on the internet without your knowledge is about the dumbest post I've seen on slashdot to date.
Even your rant about government is irrelevant given that what was done here is actually well and truly against the law.
You got that 100% backwards. Adults judge the quality of an experience. Juveniles are the ones who get fascinated by space, specs, and technical development.
NMS was the single most boring thing ever released and no amount of technology, graphics or idea of awesome space exploration can compensate for that. Now as a 35 year old adult, put your inner child back in the box and look at the game objectively for what it was: something you experienced for an hour and then wasted 39 hours of your life on.
Well, according to TFS, it's apparently especially the kids that hold the phone to their right ear that "aren't training" their figural memory. Funny how that works.
The rest of the study has some other correlations in it, but before jumping facetiously to conclusions it may be worth remembering that this is a study about the brain's ability, and you've just dismissed a criticism of the study based on a conclusion that was split into two groups of people with fundamentally different brain wiring. There have been countless studies over the years showing many differences in the function of the brain between righties and lefties.
I pretty much got the EXACT game I was expecting. I wasn't expecting ANY multiplayer
So what you basically did was not read any marketing material, watch any interviews, and do any research about the game beforehand. With zero expectations it's not surprising you got what you wanted.
The studio wasn't criticised about the early trailer differing from the game, it was criticised about the repeated lies on the record from their developers about the game and its features. Not even some early build related things, we're talking about just a few short months before the *adjusted* release date. Even after the initial release date slipped Murray was still on the record about multiplayer.
You may not have expected multiplayer, but the whole rest of the world did. Including those people who designed the box for the game. Including the people who had to submit the game to NICAM to get the PEGI rating. About the only people who didn't expect multiplayer on release are those poor guys who had to go buy boxes of stickers after the official PEGI rating was printed on the official box and officially included multiplayer days prior to launch, and they had to put stickers on the box with the updated rating.
But it's not just the multiplayer, the game is missing loads of promises. The game itself was also incredibly boring and would have been different with half of the things directly promised by the developers immediately before launch. I actually think given how they acted if someone pushed the boundaries they could probably be held liable for fraud on the pre-orders.
I could also tell that SM wasn't a PR expert and should not have been allowed to go on Colbert or do the PR he did without a professional PR person keeping him in check. He's a coder not a PR person and didn't KNOW he had to be explicit.
You don't need to be a PR person to not lie about the very code you're putting in your game, but again this wasn't SM, this was deep throughout the entire development team as shown by the box fiasco.
There was however one thing that Murray did get right. He talked about the amazing things you find at the centre of the galaxy. That really did blow my mind in the most literal sense. I've never had my brain go through such an emotional change from positivity and excitement to sadness, hatred, and anger at myself that I let myself actually get conned like this.
I have a timemachine list. There's two items on it: Go back to 1889 and throw baby Adolf off a big cliff, and go back to 2016 and slap myself before I get a chance to buy this game.
When your "legal system" has a penchant for kidnapping, murder and torture?
Oh please. Citing a single case from 17 years ago as an excuse to completely flaunt the entire justice system of a country isn't even hyperbole, it's borderline tinfoil hattery. Get a grip man.
Sweden could easily
Sweden could easily do a lot of things that breach the legal framework they have set in place. But in doing so they would confirm to do the very thing about which you just criticised them.
Yeah, but Trump is pressing the world to get quick results ( whatever the consequences ). Not a 100%, just some likeness.
At an event talking about the very people who have demonstrated to possess the least control over the situation at hand? You think the millions the UK has been spending trying to get at assange was just window dressing and Trump talking to May suddenly changed everything?
I'm sure that's it, and has nothing to do with Ecuador being fed up with Assange to the point of repeatedly cutting off his internet connection (most recently only a couple of months ago), repeatedly looking at ways to get him out of the embassy and going as far as to say on record that he keeps breaking the terms under which he was welcome in the first place.
I had to check that. FreeBSD has had it since 2011.
And even that was 3 years after it came out! I'm all for stability but did it literally take 10 years for this incredibly common and widely useful interface to be supported?
I am one of the customers they are referring to, but I never asked them to shut down the branches...
Did you go into your branch every day to justify its rent and the payment of staff? Correlation does not imply causation. Branches have been getting smaller and emptier for a long time now and the only evil nefarious reason is that people don't use them very much.
My bank also sent me a letter telling me they were shutting down my closest branch, a branch I genuinely never knew existed because I haven't walked into a branch since opening the first account with the bank 4 years ago.
People without bank accounts
WTF? Homeless people have bank accounts. Who are these people who still don't have one?
And a cashless society has major surveillance implications.
No, *your* society has major surveillance implications. In many places of the world what can be seen and done with data is well regulated for consumer protection. Fix the root cause rather than the symptom.
Yes. Just because one political event happened somewhere in the world, doesn't mean the entire world politically stands still and has to wait to make some completely unrelated decision.
You're assuming that the "justice" is actually justice, not a kangaroo court.
It's generally a very good assumption in western systems. Kangaroo court does not mean "I don't think the court will treat him fairly based on my limited googling on teh internets"
Region restricted to whom? Ironically Star Trek Discovery was most region restricted in the USA where people got a sub par CBS feed while the rest of the world watched it in HD on Netflix with surround sound.
Idiots give each other death threats for all sorts of low level irrelevant bullshit. It's usually juvenile venting. But given what was promised and what was shipped I'm surprised that he didn't actually receive a pipebomb in the mail.
For a procedurally generated open world game which is new through every playthrough people abandoned it incredibly quickly. The Atlas Rises saw a sudden uptick in gamers followed by an even sharper drop. Only a few months after launch the number of players ranged between the hundreds and very low thousands. It was a colossal bomb.
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First of all: an annoying dialog pops up and an annoying beep comes
Err back in the Windows XP days yes, and even then it wasn't a dialogue, just a tooltip that disappeared.
Secondly, you probably have forgotten that a file is open in Excel or whatever and it is half modified but not fully saved.
Assuming that users is that silly, just plug the drive back in again.
Why not eject it and be safe, respectively be not annoyed?
You're the one complaining that you had to interact with a dialogue box. By not ejecting I save myself clicks.
Ever think of testing this for yourself?
Yes: Look at the settings, notice that caching is disabled by default in Windows and has been since Windows XP was released, and yank away as soon as any file operations are done in explorer or whatever program you just used to save.
I'm on Linux Mint
Yes Linux has a bit more trust in the quality of hardware. The most common OSes in the world on the other hand do not cache on removable drives and better still if you do get corruption you will get a big warning message for whatever program was currently writing.
That default changed with the versions...
Yeah 17 years ago.
My recollection is also that somewhere along the line Microsoft changed the default in Windows.
Yes, almost 17 years ago they changed that default. Windows hasn't enabled caching and the likes on removable drives since the release of Windows XP.
The only benefit you get of the safely remove feature is that windows won't let you remove the drive if it is actively being written to. But either way you will know instantly if you end up with a corrupted file if you don't safely remove as you'll get an error message for whatever program was writing.
Mr Gruber's scenario of hidden corruption just isn't a thing.
If colleges are just going to tell you to read Wikipedia for four years then why bother going?
The certificate that gets you past the auto-rejection algorithm at a job interview.
No he wasn't. He was actively using and publishing openly footage of his passengers for his own financial gain. Not the same thing, not theoretically, not practically and sure as fuck not legally.
No need to be sorry. You completely agreed with me and provided a nice citation that helps bolster my case too. Thankyou. Every single one of the issues raised in that video is related to reasons of technical capability and the state of the technology as to why electronic voting doesn't work.
Not a single case was made for why technology shouldn't be pursued to improve the system of voting. Quite the opposite actually, he provided plenty of arguments of why it actually should be pursued, e.g. the pencil argument against disappearing ink.
It's not because technology allows it that it must be the preferred option (electronic voting is a poster child of the idea).
You have this idea precisely backwards. Electronic voting is a poster child for improving a complex system involving many days of manual effort with many 10s of thousands of man hours just to answer a simple but widely asked question. It's a perfect example of where technology would be best applied, except that the application is completely let down by the state of the technology itself NOT allowing it (security in particular comes to mind).
Oh don't be daft. Conflating privacy invasion by corporations for the own personal gain with having private video and audio of you published on the internet without your knowledge is about the dumbest post I've seen on slashdot to date.
Even your rant about government is irrelevant given that what was done here is actually well and truly against the law.
You got that 100% backwards. Adults judge the quality of an experience. Juveniles are the ones who get fascinated by space, specs, and technical development.
NMS was the single most boring thing ever released and no amount of technology, graphics or idea of awesome space exploration can compensate for that. Now as a 35 year old adult, put your inner child back in the box and look at the game objectively for what it was: something you experienced for an hour and then wasted 39 hours of your life on.
The news headlines were "European study shows cell phones could cause cancer!!!!!"
The newspaper headlines were right ... the study being wrong notwithstanding. :-)
Well, according to TFS, it's apparently especially the kids that hold the phone to their right ear that "aren't training" their figural memory. Funny how that works.
The rest of the study has some other correlations in it, but before jumping facetiously to conclusions it may be worth remembering that this is a study about the brain's ability, and you've just dismissed a criticism of the study based on a conclusion that was split into two groups of people with fundamentally different brain wiring. There have been countless studies over the years showing many differences in the function of the brain between righties and lefties.
I pretty much got the EXACT game I was expecting. I wasn't expecting ANY multiplayer
So what you basically did was not read any marketing material, watch any interviews, and do any research about the game beforehand. With zero expectations it's not surprising you got what you wanted.
The studio wasn't criticised about the early trailer differing from the game, it was criticised about the repeated lies on the record from their developers about the game and its features. Not even some early build related things, we're talking about just a few short months before the *adjusted* release date. Even after the initial release date slipped Murray was still on the record about multiplayer.
You may not have expected multiplayer, but the whole rest of the world did. Including those people who designed the box for the game. Including the people who had to submit the game to NICAM to get the PEGI rating. About the only people who didn't expect multiplayer on release are those poor guys who had to go buy boxes of stickers after the official PEGI rating was printed on the official box and officially included multiplayer days prior to launch, and they had to put stickers on the box with the updated rating.
But it's not just the multiplayer, the game is missing loads of promises. The game itself was also incredibly boring and would have been different with half of the things directly promised by the developers immediately before launch. I actually think given how they acted if someone pushed the boundaries they could probably be held liable for fraud on the pre-orders.
I could also tell that SM wasn't a PR expert and should not have been allowed to go on Colbert or do the PR he did without a professional PR person keeping him in check. He's a coder not a PR person and didn't KNOW he had to be explicit.
You don't need to be a PR person to not lie about the very code you're putting in your game, but again this wasn't SM, this was deep throughout the entire development team as shown by the box fiasco.
There was however one thing that Murray did get right. He talked about the amazing things you find at the centre of the galaxy. That really did blow my mind in the most literal sense. I've never had my brain go through such an emotional change from positivity and excitement to sadness, hatred, and anger at myself that I let myself actually get conned like this.
I have a timemachine list. There's two items on it: Go back to 1889 and throw baby Adolf off a big cliff, and go back to 2016 and slap myself before I get a chance to buy this game.
When your "legal system" has a penchant for kidnapping, murder and torture?
Oh please. Citing a single case from 17 years ago as an excuse to completely flaunt the entire justice system of a country isn't even hyperbole, it's borderline tinfoil hattery. Get a grip man.
Sweden could easily
Sweden could easily do a lot of things that breach the legal framework they have set in place. But in doing so they would confirm to do the very thing about which you just criticised them.
Yeah, but Trump is pressing the world to get quick results ( whatever the consequences ). Not a 100%, just some likeness.
At an event talking about the very people who have demonstrated to possess the least control over the situation at hand? You think the millions the UK has been spending trying to get at assange was just window dressing and Trump talking to May suddenly changed everything?
I'm sure that's it, and has nothing to do with Ecuador being fed up with Assange to the point of repeatedly cutting off his internet connection (most recently only a couple of months ago), repeatedly looking at ways to get him out of the embassy and going as far as to say on record that he keeps breaking the terms under which he was welcome in the first place.
NetBSD just received USB 3.0 support just now?
I had to check that. FreeBSD has had it since 2011.
And even that was 3 years after it came out! I'm all for stability but did it literally take 10 years for this incredibly common and widely useful interface to be supported?
I am one of the customers they are referring to, but I never asked them to shut down the branches...
Did you go into your branch every day to justify its rent and the payment of staff? Correlation does not imply causation. Branches have been getting smaller and emptier for a long time now and the only evil nefarious reason is that people don't use them very much.
My bank also sent me a letter telling me they were shutting down my closest branch, a branch I genuinely never knew existed because I haven't walked into a branch since opening the first account with the bank 4 years ago.
People without bank accounts
WTF? Homeless people have bank accounts. Who are these people who still don't have one?
And a cashless society has major surveillance implications.
No, *your* society has major surveillance implications. In many places of the world what can be seen and done with data is well regulated for consumer protection. Fix the root cause rather than the symptom.
Yes. Just because one political event happened somewhere in the world, doesn't mean the entire world politically stands still and has to wait to make some completely unrelated decision.
Do you expect Trump to pardon him if he's in fact done something illegal?
Is that a trick question?
Remember: Sweden had already closed the case against him
There's still outstanding charges he's wanted for.
He's agreed many times to be interviewed by Sweden on neutral ground.
Yeah I know. All our legal systems let fugitives decide the terms of their interview.
You're assuming that the "justice" is actually justice, not a kangaroo court.
It's generally a very good assumption in western systems. Kangaroo court does not mean "I don't think the court will treat him fairly based on my limited googling on teh internets"
Region restricted to whom? Ironically Star Trek Discovery was most region restricted in the USA where people got a sub par CBS feed while the rest of the world watched it in HD on Netflix with surround sound.
My posts are of a high quality
Your post is Offtopic.
If Slashdot doesn't fix the abusive moderation, users will continue to leave this site and never return
I've seen this comment repeated frequently the past 20 years.
If my thoughtful and high quality posts keep getting censored to -1, I'll leave as well.
If you're modded to -1 frequently chances are we won't miss you.
It's ridiculous that moderation has become an agree/disagree vote and Trump lovers can keep voting my posts down because they disagree with them.
The fact you think that the mods here are pro Trump is a very good indication that your posts are of an especially shithouse quality.
Idiots give each other death threats for all sorts of low level irrelevant bullshit. It's usually juvenile venting. But given what was promised and what was shipped I'm surprised that he didn't actually receive a pipebomb in the mail.
For a procedurally generated open world game which is new through every playthrough people abandoned it incredibly quickly. The Atlas Rises saw a sudden uptick in gamers followed by an even sharper drop. Only a few months after launch the number of players ranged between the hundreds and very low thousands. It was a colossal bomb.